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Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand surveillance far beyond roadside cameras.

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[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 month ago

Most depressing read of the week. RIP Bill of Rights.

https://aerocorner.com/blog/legally-take-down-drone/

Can I shoot down a drone?

It is illegal to shoot a drone out of the sky, even when the drone is flying over private property.

Is it legal to jam a drone?

Jamming any type of radio signal is illegal.

Can drones fly over houses?

Drones can legally fly over houses in most areas.

What should I do if I feel that a drone is invading my privacy?

If you believe that a drone is infringing on your right to privacy, there are several options available. You can contact the owner of the drone and ask them to stop flying it in your vicinity, report it to local law enforcement or file a complaint with the FAA.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Begun, the Drone Wars have.

It's going to get worse before it gets better.

[-] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

You joke but it's really your only option that isn't a felony. There will be an faa investigation, but you won't immediately cop a felony.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 23 points 1 month ago

Remember kids, moral and legal are very different concepts.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago

It is illegal to shoot a drone out of the sky

Yeah well, it's illegal to hold an insurrection against the US government, kidnap and imprison foreign country leaders, serially rape both adults and children, and defraud US elections, but it would seem being illegal doesn't actually mean anything.

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can I fly my own drone really close to a surveillance drone? You know, one that’s coincidentally full of expensive parts?

Well… Yes. But why would you do such a thing?

[-] this@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Automated drone that automatically fly in front of the flock drone's camera to block its view, from the minimum safe/legal distance away. Multiple drones if that's too far to have a decent effect.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

What if I’m just casually tossing nets in my backyard and just happen to snag the drone?

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

So its legal to shoot someone on your property if you have a sign about it on your fence but illegal to take down a drone? Feels like those priorities are pretty baclwards...

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

It's an extension of noble privilege, like Fox Hunting.. Only rich people fly, so drones are as protected as rich people.

[-] animalhabitat@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

eBay has drones for like $12. It’d be a bummer if they accidentally bumped into each other.

[-] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Those 12 dollar ones are less than 100 grams and are using WiFi and would not really put a dent in that drone. Maybe you fan fly it at the props of the survalience drone, but I doubt you can even reach the altitude the survalience drones where meant to run on. Micro drones are actually the best to learn on because they're so light its much harder to crash them. Once you are over 100-250 grams the force of the impact of a crash is much higher.

You need a 5 inch frame, something that can use 4s, or 6s batteries that pull more amps. and you're gonna want fpv if youre doing dog fights. A decent 5 inch frame you build yourself is around 400 with the camera, transmitter, flight controller, motors, props, battery, etc. The radio and fpv head set you can get for maybe 200, but you really want spend around 600 for those. Youre gonna be over the 250 gram flight limit before you gotta start doing legal shit, but fuck the FAA.

That and most of the "real" drones that arent just some bullshit dji consumer friendly drone don't fly easily. You get horizon, level, and acro. Acro is the mode you will actually use to fly, and you want at minimum a good 10-20 hours to be proficient enough to just hover/puts around without crashing. I'd say hitting another moving target is some where between 40-80 hours.

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty soon they'll just have drones in the air monitoring large public events. Then smaller events. Most definitely any kind of protest.

Technology is advancing faster than the ability of our aging, decrepit electorate to regulate it.

[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago

Police drones have been in use for many years for crowds

[-] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like how nsa and the spying was real since Snowden leaks.

...but it's going to be worse.

Sometimes I wonder if social media was specifically funded by the FEDs to datamine. They spent years manipulating people and collecting data, and now they are building data centers and applying software to profile people. It seems clear they will use hardware for policing on a new level, as well as move from the police force to ICE. These new drones and flock style ai monitoring is like the datamining of the real world.

I think people are too engrossed in cultural consumer and entertainment escapism to even understand how fucked up things are. And it's sad because that escapism is also feeding the datamining and marketing to further out people in hole soullessness and social manipulation. The path of our lives isn't even our natural path anymore, they use our life for reasons that aren't ours. Shit. That last sentence is a paraphrase from John Stockwell - a CIA whistle blower from the 80s.

Death seems like it's slowly becoming more genuine than life. Like it seems obvious the goal of those in control has nothing to do with genuine humanity, but instead some psychotic ideology based off fear of freedom and natural existence.

If we're lucky maybe someday they'll allow us assisted suicide for the ailment of understanding truth. ...but they'll probably just crucify us, or genocide.

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[-] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah that is the reason I quit going to protest in Morganton, NC of all places.

[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Some local cops got in trouble this year because they were using their drones as PHYSICAL enforcement of the drone-ban for the 4th of July fireworks.

As in, they didn't follow drones to find their owners, they tried to use their own drone to smash other ones out of the sky. They hit a car on the way down...

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[-] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Big thanks to all the leftists who stayed home because their local Democrat wasn't left enough for them.

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[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember years ago an engineer for the ARGUS-IS doing like a PSA warning about all of this. The missing piece then was a systems to sift through mountains of disparate data sources to pull together a single cohesive and relevant data point.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Which I'm guessing is why data centers are so hot right now. Surveillance state brought to us by big tech, billionaires, and corporations. They sell this stuff to naive or malicious police and government officials. I'm not too surprised the police are on board but so very many politicians are signing their localities up for it and citizens aren't happy.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We need something like deflock to keep track of who is signing off on all of this so people can organize and vote them out. It's a very bipartisan issue.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AI bros who don't take "no" for an answer are the same people as cops are the same people as rapists are the same people as republicans are the same people as pedophiles are the same people as bots pushers are the same people who fucking ruin everything

It's the "I know better than you" people

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Yup. They're all over the perv-glasses threads telling people they have no right to privacy and it's no different that a cell phone camera. meanwhile, they're posting upskirts and downshirts, stalking videos, harassment, outright racist hate shit, all recorded with their cute lil fuckin perv-glasses.

And meta keeps putting facial recognition shit in the APIs but denying it.

the sad part is, they could be great tools for the disabled, but a bunch of shitkids have already ruined that use because meta wants profits more than helping people or -haha- letting people have privacy.

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[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

"Citizen, our drone spotted you smoking marijuana in your bedroom. Do you have a prescription? Let's figure this out downtown."

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[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

Including but not limited to licence plates

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[-] sweettea@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

are umbrellas illegal yet?

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

Parasols. Umbrellas stop rain, so it's sus^1^ to use one when it isn't raining. Parasols are for sunny days.

^1^ - Being sus might as well be a crime in the US at this point.

[-] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

That gonna cost so much money to replace

[-] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Much harder and much more illegal to interfere with a drone; I'd be shocked if these needed replacing due to vandalism at all, let alone as frequently as people take out terrestrial Flock cameras.

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It feels like death will soon be better than existence.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

"When death is no longer the worst alternative, there will be revolution."

  • my highschool history teacher
[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And thats when we have nothing to lose. We free ourselves or die trying.

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[-] edg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

A machine is being built, designed to stamp on a human face forever. We have to strangle it while it's still in the cradle.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

The window is closing rapidly

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 1 month ago

Great, now I need an AA gun on top of my car.

Curious how long it will take someone to come up with an STL and board spec and parts list for an anti-drone soft kill system that can be deployed through a sunroof lolol

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

there are many ways to counter these

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

If they only go 60 they ain't catching up to me 🤷‍♂️

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[-] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

It's hilarious how toxic the replies are, Lemmy users are out here trying to fight

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[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You can build a net gun to disable these without any of the 2A paperwork. All you need is PVC, net, a sprinkler valve, and a blow gun (the kind you use to release compressed air). If you can build a potato cannon you can build a net gun.

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